J. C. Ryle Quotes
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
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Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
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It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
